in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
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Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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In wildness is the preservation of the world.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Soul)
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
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Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
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